NEW DELHI: Moser Baer Power Projects on Tuesday announced that it had tied up for funds with Macquarie SBI Infrastructure for funding the first phase of its 2,520 MW thermal power project at Anuppur in Madhya Pradesh by offering the latter minority stake in the project.
First phase
Addressing a press conference here, company Promoter Deepak Puri said Macquarie SBI Infrastructure would invest R

As many as 7 lakh meters of electricity consumers in the state are out of order. This is causing huge monetary losses to Haryana Power Utility as the absence of exact meter readings increases the misuse of power by consumers.
Sources in the power utility say, out of the 46 lakh electricity consumers in the state, as many as 7 lakh have meters which have been out of order for months together.

With New Delhi gradually losing interest in the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, the prospects of China replacing India in the ambitious project are brightening.
India is now marshalling all its resources to ensure an early fruition of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) to meet its growing demand for natural gas, sources in the government acknowledged.
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<p><span id="itro1">This new World Bank report focuses on problems and barriers that developers are facing in the solar power sector in India. It analyses the risk perception of domestic and international developers and shows how these could be mitigated.</span></p>

PSI Media Inc presents the India energy handbook 2011 to identify business opportunities and track the progress of projects in rapidly growing markets for technologies that minimize pollutant emissions associated with the use of fossil fuels. These technologies include renewables and nuclear power, which displace traditional primary-energy resources.

Italy's constitutional court ruled on Wednesday a national referendum could be held against the construction of nuclear power plants, dealing a potential blow to government plans to relaunch the sector.
Italy is the only Group of Eight industrialized nation that does not produce nuclear power, but Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi aims wants nuclear plants to generate a quarter of the country's